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Nima
Nima

Reputation: 3409

Laravel 4.1 - Enable debug at runtime

I'm using Laravel 4.1 to write an application. For some reason I need to disable debug in all environments including production, but I need to provide a means for users to be able to enable debug mode without editing configuration files (app.php) whenever needed (that means at runtime)

Is there a way to do so? I tried to change debug settings in App::before but that does not seem to be the correct solution (exception handlers are already registered at that point)

Update:
In last paragraph I said

exception handlers are already registered at that point

This comment is misleading I think. Exception handlers should be registered anyway.
The actual problem I need to solve is: How to change which displayer (plainDisplayer or debugDisplayer) to use?

This decision is made at runtime (whenever an exception actually occures) based on value of a variable ($debug) in Illuminate\Exception\Handler

Calling app('exception')->setDebug(true) makes exception handler to use debug displayer but I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do it, specially if I'm going to put this code in App::before filter

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3504

Answers (2)

Varedis
Varedis

Reputation: 758

Why would you enable users to see your internal app debugging, that sounds like a security nightmare. Users would be able to force errors and potentially get sensitive information, such as API keys, database information, etc, etc.

Why not, throw/catch errors in your app, display a nice view to the user and log the actual errors somewhere away from the users view?

Upvotes: 1

Jerodev
Jerodev

Reputation: 33186

You can edit config settings using the Config class. This will edit the settings for the current request in any enviroment. With this you can set or get the debug value like so:

Config::set('app.debug', true);

Upvotes: 3

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